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Review of A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America by Janet Galligani Casey
Great Plains Quarterly
  • Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, Iowa State University
Date of this Version
7-1-2012
Citation

Great Plains Quarterly 32:3 (Summer 2012).

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Copyright © 2012 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska.

Abstract

In A New Heartland, Janet Galligani Casey tackles the difficult issue of how to judge modernity in early twentieth-century America by focusing on a group often thought to embody traditional and anti modern America, its rural women. The book is not about the realities of rural life. Instead, it is about the depiction and idea of rural life, and women's place within these. Galligani Casey examines women's place in the periodicals, literature, and photography of the time, doing a particularly good job of analyzing the leading farm women's periodical of the day, The Farmer's Wife. The book connects agrarian women with early twentieth-century debates about women's place in ways not normally seen in either mainline women's history, or even rural women's history.

Citation Information
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg. "Review of A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America by Janet Galligani Casey" (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/pamela_riney-kehrberg/20/